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Programme Overview:
This programme is an integrated design study that helps develop your creative passion, specifically focusing on fostering your conceptual and technical design skills. Graphic design course is also known as communication design. It is the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas through visual and textual forms for user experience. Forms of communication designed could be represented in physical and or virtual state accompanied by interactive engagement and or display.
Courses in Graphic Design will nurture your design capabilities of working across a range of creative industry-relevant practice from commercial, education to environment, cultural, and civic sectors. Each area of explorations will focus on graphical aspects of print, illustration and screen-based interactive design which contribute to the problem-solving challenges in any area of visual communication.
Throughout the programme, you will indulge in developing your creative ideas in subject area such as advertising, branding, digital visualisation, photography, illustration and concept. These studies are essential to the development of becoming a trained professional graphic designer, while the learning process exposes you to opportunities of developing your progressive graphic design portfolio, to prepare you for better future career prospect.
Duration: 2 Years
Intakes: June
Campus: KUALA LUMPUR CAMPUS (R2/0211/4/0115)(08/28)(AA0084)
Academic Progression: Graduates may be admitted into Year 2 of Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Graphic Design.
Progression Routes:
Introduction to Information Technology
Creative & Critical Thinking
Design Fundamentals
Drawing: Dry Media
Introduction to Art
Basic Photography
Colour Studies
Design for Print
Introduction to Advertising
Drawing: Wet Media
Typography
Fundamentals of Web Page OR Introduction to Drama
Arts Law
Applied Photography
Drawing: Mixed Media
Digital Typography
Packaging Design
Digital Illustration OR Music Appreciation
Design for Creative Industry
Print Production
Commercial Design
Editorial Design
Exhibit Design
Graphic Design Final Project
Language, Mata Pelajaran Pengajian Umum (MPU) and Co-curricular Courses:
English for Tertiary Studies, Perlembagaan dan Masyarakat Berintegriti, Bahasa Kebangsaan A, Academic English, Happiness and Well-being, Civic Consciousness and Volunteerism,Professional English, Co-curricular
Visualisers
Illustrators
Photographers
Signage Designers
Graphic Designers
In-House Designers
Character Designers
Typography Designers
Web Page Designers
General Merchandisers
Instructional Designers
Event Display Designers
Sale Promotion Designers
Support staff in mass Media Organisation
Advertising Agencies & Publishing Agencies
Graduates may work in a range of profession related to advertising, publishing, packaging design or printing
Estimated Total Fees: RM20,200 (Malaysian Students), RM46,400 (International Students)
The estimated total fees may vary by 10%
Note: Estimated fees for International Students are inclusive of 6% Sales and Service Tax (SST)
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Programme Leader
Diploma in Graphic Design
Puan Jacqueline Sim Fei Chin
Email: simfc@tarc.edu.my
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Graphic Design
Encik Mohd Rizzham Bin Ishak
Email: mrizzhami@tarc.edu.my